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Copper Contributor

Dec 30, 2018

EXCEL HELP! cells not matching up with row highlighted

Good morning. I am not a pro in Excel, but it is what I use to build my budgets on for work. I have recently bought a new MacBook Pro and the latest Microsoft/Excel. I have this problem when I get...

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BJA3633

Copper Contributor

May 02, 2019

Haytham Amairah

I think you responded to a similar problem I am having in Excel.

I am working in a worksheet. The formatting is normal.

Then, I get to the bottom rows and when I highlight a cell to modify it, the highlighted cell is not discreet (meaning it doesn't line up exactly to the cell I am trying to highlight) and it actually selects a cell 2 or 3 rows down.

I can't seem to reformat it to be normal. Any suggestions?

Haytham Amairah

Silver Contributor

May 03, 2019

HiBJA3633

I guess that the cell you've selected is merged with another cell!

Please check out this link below learn more about Merge and Unmerge cells:

https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/merge-and-unmerge-cells-5cbd15d5-9375-4540-907f-c673a93fcedf

Hope that helps